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Learn how to organize projects, run commands safely, build daily and Docker workflows, inspect databases, run local security audits, interpret health, and protect DevDock's local data.

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Project setup16 min read

Technology detection and repository extensions

Understand DevDock's non-executing detection model, interpret health results, and add safe repository-owned commands with a small manifest.

  • What first-class support means
  • Understand the detection boundary
  • Interpret the workspace result
  • Model monorepos and split products
  • Add a repository-owned manifest
  • Verify repository commands
  • Know when an adapter is required
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Integrations15 min read

Docker and Compose workflows

Connect Compose discovery, runtime health, host-versus-container execution, and safe daily environments into one repeatable DevDock workflow.

  • Prepare the Compose project
  • How Compose discovery works
  • Read Docker health in context
  • Configure non-standard file sets
  • Choose host or container execution
  • Build a repeatable development environment
  • Understand safety limits and recovery
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Database18 min read

Database tools, schema inspection, and backups

Use DevDock with SQLite, MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and detected Laravel databases for safe lookups, schema review, diagnostics, exports, and confirmed restores.

  • Choose the project or direct connection
  • Understand the supported database engines
  • Inspect schema before querying
  • Find records with a constrained lookup
  • Export and restore native backups
  • Use Laravel diagnostics and maintenance
  • Troubleshoot without weakening safety
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Security17 min read

Local project security audits and dependency checks

Run DevDock's read-only local security audit, understand each finding, complement it with ecosystem advisory scanners, and respond without exposing secrets.

  • Run the universal local audit
  • Know what the baseline checks
  • Understand the privacy boundary
  • Read the audit limits correctly
  • Respond to secret findings
  • Fix filesystem and dependency findings
  • Run dependency advisory scanners
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Daily use14 min read

Commands, workflows, and run history

Create dependable project commands, choose safe execution targets, manage long-running work, and use history to diagnose failed runs.

  • Generated and custom commands
  • Review before the first run
  • Run and stop processes
  • Build reusable workflows
  • Read run history
  • Protect environment values
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Organization12 min read

Organize multi-folder and multi-repository projects

Represent a complete product without forcing its API, web client, mobile app, and infrastructure into one repository.

  • Choose the workspace boundary
  • Add and label folders
  • Keep detection scoped
  • Name commands for the whole product
  • Use project shortcuts
  • Restructure without losing clarity
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Troubleshooting15 min read

Project health and troubleshooting

Interpret health warnings, separate setup problems from command failures, and recover a workspace without resorting to broad destructive cleanup.

  • What project health means
  • Start with scope and evidence
  • Resolve missing tools
  • Investigate failed commands
  • Handle Git warnings
  • Recover workflows
  • When to rescan or rebuild the workspace
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Privacy & data12 min read

Privacy, secrets, and local data

Understand what DevDock reads, what it stores, how secret task values are protected, and what happens when projects or history are removed.

  • The local-first boundary
  • What detection reads
  • Project records and source files
  • How secret task values are protected
  • Run history and retention
  • Removing and resetting data safely
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